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  • Catching History On The Wing
    A. Sivanandan / ASivanandan
    The definitive collection of A. Sivanandan’s writing. ...
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    44,62 €

  • Little Dorrit, Book the First - Poverty
    Charles Dickens
    This book is the first volume of Charles Dickens’ 1857 novel, 'Little Doritt'. Amy is the youngest child of a man who has been incarcerated for not paying back a debt. While working as a seamstress, she falls in love with Arthur Clennam, and hopes that she will she be able to win his heart and escape her miserable life. A masterful exploration of social injustices, 'Little Dori...
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    42,98 €

  • Little Dorrit, Book the Second - Riches
    Charles Dickens
    This book is the second volume of Charles Dickens’ 1857 novel, 'Little Doritt'. Amy is the youngest child of a man who has been incarcerated for not paying back a debt. While working as a seamstress, she falls in love with Arthur Clennam, and hopes that she will she be able to win his heart and escape her miserable life. A masterful exploration of social injustices, 'Little Dor...
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    40,93 €

  • Justice
    Discusses a range of fundamental issues about justice. This work addresses issues pertaining to distributive, procedural, and interactional justice using a range of methodologies. It focuses on issues relevant to the processes underlying justice evaluations, including motivations, perceptions, identities, ideologies and exclusionary practices. ...
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    222,34 €

  • Class Construction
    Carrie Freie
    Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class high school students in a de-industrialized area of the Northeast. This ethnographic study explores class, racial and gender identity construction, and focuses on the ways the students’ perceptions of their current and future classed...
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    64,49 €

  • Members Only
    Diana Elizabeth Kendall / Diana Kendall
    Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall’s study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class. ...
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    54,58 €

  • Transmitting Inequality
    Yuval Elmelech
    While the United States is the world’s richest nation, the distribution of private property and wealth among Americans is often comprised of alarmingly disparate portions. With a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse population, the interdependence between generations, institutions, and social spheres has become essential to social stratification processes in contemporary Amer...
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    55,50 €

  • The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
    This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established scholars contributed chapters based on their original field research, foll...
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    163,29 €

  • The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
    The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class explores the dynamics of the modern American family and how they have adapted to the changing economy and culture. Contributors from a variety of disciplines redefine the concept of the 'model American family' and provide well-researched insight into what the new standards for judging family life and its fun...
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    73,33 €

  • Emergence of the New Majority--Volume 1 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
    Robert Corfe
    In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst most governments drive towards greater equity and justice, the reality is towards an opposite direction, and the greater polarisation of society. The author of this book points the bl...
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    28,85 €

  • Race and Wealth Disparities
    Beverly Moran
    Race and Wealth Disparities is a multidisciplinary reader on the subject of race and wealth primarily, yet not exclusively, within the United States. The authors represent a number of social science and humanities’ perspectives from anthropology, economics, education policy, history, literature and law, to management, political science, social psychology and sociology. The auth...
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    64,21 €

  • Unequal Chances
    Is the United States 'the land of equal opportunity' or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to the...
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    69,31 €

  • Social Exclusion and Community Capital
    Mei-ling Wang / Vinand Mukatabala Nantulya
    What is social exclusion? Why is social exclusion the most daunting threat to global health and development? Social Exclusion and Community Capital has created a new theory and offers a multi-equitable partnership model to resolve global health challenges. This new theory offers readers a valuable insight into the use of critical links and community capital to improve global de...
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    69,46 €

  • Youth and Social Capital
    Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people themselves, in making the transition from dependent child to independent adult. Through findings from research groups in Finland a...
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    25,39 €

  • Youth and Social Capital
    Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people themselves, in making the transition from dependent child to independent adult. Through findings from research groups in Finland a...
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    60,36 €

  • Black And White
    T. Thomas Fortune / TThomas Fortune
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,43 €

  • In the Wake of Terror
    E. Jr. San Juan / E. San Juan / EJrSan Juan / Epifanio JrSan Juan / ESan Juan Jr
    In the Wake of Terror inquires into the historical conditions and possibilities of radical change in the post-9/11 world of globalized capitalism. E. San Juan, Jr. focuses on numerous problems, including those of racism, class antagonisms, and subalternity in the United States. Global violence is also examined in relation to the anti-imperialist struggle of diverse communities ...
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    59,95 €

  • In the Wake of Terror
    E Jr San Juan / E. Jr. San Juan / EJrSan Juan / Epifanio JrSan Juan / ESan Juan Jr
    In the Wake of Terror inquires into the historical conditions and possibilities of radical change in the post-9/11 world of globalized capitalism. E. San Juan, Jr. focuses on numerous problems, including those of racism, class antagonisms, and subalternity in the United States. Global violence is also examined in relation to the anti-imperialist struggle of diverse communities ...
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    147,14 €

  • Class Construction
    Carrie Freie
    Class Construction explores class, racial, and gender identity construction among white, working-class students. Delving into River City High School, Freie asks what happens to the adolescent children of working-class families when economic changes such as globalization and technological advancements have altered the face of working-class jobs. Mass consumerism, greater availab...
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    124,02 €

  • AWOL
    Frank Schaeffer / Kathy Roth-Douquet
    In America, it is increasingly the case that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, the gap between the 'all-volunteer military' and the rest of us is widening, and our country faces a dangerous lack of understanding between those in power and those who d...
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    12,76 €

  • Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class
    Joseph O. Jewell / Joseph OJewell
    Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the relationship between race and class in the United States, particularly in periods of large scale social change. Over a century ago, when the abolition of racial slavery, Southern Reconstruction, industrialization, and urban migration presented challenges to both race and class hierarchi...
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    55,80 €

  • Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income
    JA Hobson / John Atkinson Hobson
    “Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income” is a 1931 essay by English social scientist and economist John Atkinson Hobson. Within it, Hobson analyses financial distribution during the early years of Twentieth Century Britain, exploring the important moral questions related to the necessary economic reforms of the period. Hobson argues that under-consumption, over-production, an...
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    31,78 €

  • Class Counts
    Allan COrnstein / Allan Ornstein
    Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. ...
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    56,63 €

  • Class Counts
    Allan COrnstein / Allan Ornstein
    Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. The U.S. is heading for a financial oligarchy much worse than the aristocratic old world that our Founding Fathers feared and tried to avo...
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    153,48 €

  • Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class
    Ellen Luborsky / Joseph O. Jewell / Joseph OJewell / Lester Luborsky
    Periods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature of class identities makes movements which attempt to redistribute class resources along racial lines a challenge to both raci...
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    140,21 €

  • Global Social Problems
    Allan Mazur
    While conventional social problems textbooks focus on issues in the United States, Global Social Problems examines major problems around the world. Beginning with a broad history of how humanity came to be divided along its present major social cleavages, the text then turns to the specific problems of war, social inequality, population, and resources and environment. It is int...
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    140,02 €

  • Reimagining Civic Education
    EDoyle Stevick
    This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia to the Spokane Reservation and El Salvador to Estonia, these chapters rev...
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    62,21 €

  • Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites
    How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? Any democratic society is inevitably confronted by this basic question. This book reviews existing research on elites and their interactions with those around them. It looks at how the recruitment to elites changes in the long run according to class and gender. ...
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    211,78 €

  • You Call This a Democracy?
    Paul Kivel
    You Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U.S. ruling class and the power elite dominate wealth, power and decision-making in all aspects of our lives and institutions. Arguing that the United States has always had a ruling class, this book does not focus on the current administration or rogue corporations, but presents a deeper, longer-term anal...
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    33,44 €

  • Claiming Individuality
    Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: it explores the expression of individuality as a form of social action inextricably linked to questions of belonging. Using case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the authors examine a wide range of topics. Covering everythin...
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    47,41 €


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